Trump Continues to Lie About Tariff Revenue

[JimH52]

He has late stage dementia. He has no idea what he is saying longer

I will be shocked if he is still coherent by mid-terms.

 

[Yarddog]

You've linked the article...why not read it?

7.4 billion investment is funded almost entirely by....America.

Thats pretty much how most of "brought in 18 trillion" bullshit goes.

Capital investments inside the U.S. means jobs. besides those plants created will be more logistical support jobs etc.. more profits... more investments.. then more jobs. thats how you grow an economy

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I would predict that if Trump keeps the existing tariffs as high as they are now, this country's economy is going to flirt with recession level consumer spending. Prices are going keep rising and jobs are going to keep falling and that ain't good. I have seen absolutely nothing that indicates increased domestic manufacturing either. Plus, inflation will continue to rise too, although maybe not like it did in 2021 unless he gets that big rebate thing passed through Congress.

None of that has happened over the last year. The left kept saying it would but it hasn’t. So why would we expect it in the next year?

 

[BrokeLoser]

Either Trump is telling a bald-faced lie or the man has some senility setting in. His tariffs have brought in $236 billion in revenue this year. Even at the current rates, his tariffs would bring in $2.3 trillion over ten years, so why does he continue to claim an absurdly false figure?

Trump first used the "$18 trillion" figure during a cabinet meeting on December 2, then repeated it during comments to reporters on December 3 and in an interview with Politico on December 8. He also brought it up, unprompted and somewhat bizarrely, during the announcement on December 4 of a new peace treaty that aims to end hostilities between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On Sunday, Trump revisited the $18 trillion claim while speaking to reporters at the White House. "Because of the tariffs, we've taken in more than 18—think of this—more than $18 trillion. There's never been anything like it," Trump said. Moments later, he repeated the claim, stating that "we took in more than $18 trillion in 10 months."

That figure is utterly fantastical—and Trump's explanation is more than a little confusing. More on that in a moment.

Trump says tariffs have brought in $18 trillion. That's impossible.

Tariffs have generated less than $300 billion in new tax revenue, and other claimed investments don't come close to the president's tally.

reason.com

Be careful Bruh….it’s starting to look like Trump has de-brained you…or Mac1958 ‘ed your mind. Stay in the game…stay credible.

 

[Norm Paperman]

None of that has happened over the last year. The left kept saying it would but it hasn’t. So why would we expect it in the next year?

All of that happened over the last year.

Prices are up. New job growth is slowing to a crawl. The Fed had to lower the interest rates to keep the US from going into a recession.

I bet you believed Trump last night when he said he brought down the prices of new cars.

 

[Mac1958]

He's just going to keep lying. It's all he knows.

 

[candycorn]

Have those investments been made or just promised?

Not even promised in some cases.

 

[candycorn]

Well, maybe. I think Trump is gambling that steep tariff pressure might make some foreign companies and countries to acquiesce to fairer trade before Americans are hurt too bad while creating more incentive to spur more companies to move manufacturing back here.

I think at some point, Trump will either pull the tariffs when they approach that level of success or will eventually pull them if they fail in their goal and too many Americans start getting only hurt too much by them.

So "some Americans" getting hurt by them is okay with you?

Go back to sleep loser boy.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

I will be shocked if he is still coherent by mid-terms.

The orange retard isn't coherent NOW.

 

[Norm Paperman]

The orange retard isn't coherent NOW.

Last night he once again said drug prices were coming down by 600%.

Truly the most pathetic part of him saying that is none of his aids have the courage to explain it to him, they just keep letting him make a fool out of himself instead.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Last night he once again said drug prices were coming down by 600%.

Truly the most pathetic part of him saying that is none of his aids have the courage to explain it to him, they just keep letting him make a fool out of himself instead.

Trump likely fired the aids that tried.

 

[Norm Paperman]

Trump likely fired the aids that tried.

That could be, he probably thought they were lying to him.

It seems obvious now that Trump is not lying and is not even exaggerating, he truly thinks that the prices are coming down by 600%.

 

[Care4all]

They danced with glee and CELEBRATED the brutal execution of Kirk in front of his children

Who is THEY?

 

[Norm Paperman]

Who is THEY?

The voices in his head

 

[kyzr]

Who is THEY?

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Growing list of workers in hot water for praising Charlie Kirk’s assassination

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www.independent.co.uk

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/business/charlie-kirk-death-fired-comments

 

[Care4all]

Gleeful school teachers celebrate Charlie Kirk assassination in horrific, ghoulish posts: ‘This person teaches your children’

The very people shaping the young minds of the nation revealed their twisted views in disturbing posts across the country Wednesday, following the shooting at a rally in Utah where Kirk was speakin…

nypost.com

Growing list of workers in hot water for praising Charlie Kirk’s assassination

While MAGAworld reels from Charlie Kirk’s murder, others face issues for praising the death of the right-wing activist

www.independent.co.uk

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/business/charlie-kirk-death-fired-comments

So, it's okay to imply it's all democrats that all celebrated, when it was just a handful of individuals compare to the +/- 70 million registered democrats?

 

[Hafar1014]

I will be shocked if he is still coherent by mid-terms.

Trump has zero signs of dementia while Biden had profound symptoms didnt you notice that. If you didnt you have signs if stupidity

 

[kyzr]

So, it's okay to imply it's all democrats that all celebrated, when it was just a handful of individuals compare to the +/- 70 million registered democrats?

No one said "all democrats", that any celebrated shows how sick the amoral democrats are.

 

[AntonToo]

Capital investments inside the U.S. means jobs. besides those plants created will be more logistical support jobs etc.. more profits... more investments.. then more jobs. thats how you grow an economy

Americans don't need tariffs (and increased inflation that comes with them) to have our government spend our tax dollars on investments in America.

 

[AntonToo]

Be careful Bruh….it’s starting to look like Trump has de-brained you

That's a funny thing to say for someone so de-brained.